BBC INTERVIEW Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the US hasn’t abandoned it’s support for al Nusra who Moscow regards as a terrorist organisation. “We believe there’s a plan to spare al Nusra”, he told BBC News. He also accused the US of staying silent over civilian suffering in Aleppo when the city was about to fall to the rebels.

ISLAMABAD India says it conducted ‘surgical strikes’. Pakistan denies this saying it’s soldiers were killed in cross border shelling. 18 Indian soldiers were killed last week after an attack on army base in Indian-occupied Kashmir which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan. Islamabad denies this.

CAIRO Human Rights Watch said the prison was used to imprison any critics of the military regime where they would be forgotten. ABOVE One of the many illegal ads that appeared on Eid showing those imprisoned by the regime since the coup in 2013.